Two players quit international string quartet
OrchestrasWe hear that the US-based Aizuri Quartet has, after 11 years together, lost its cellist and violist.
Cellist Karen Ouzounianis pursuing a solo career and violist Ayane Kozasa is focused on full-time teaching at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
That leaves the two violinists casting around for lower strings.
Happily, their deeply important videos dealing with pronouns will live as long as the internet allows.
Saw them do a great performance of John Adams’s “Absolute Jest” last year with the Milwaukee Symphony, they seemed to have great chemistry and energy